This is my first post to this board - EVER - and I have to echo the praise for Maggie. She often shares her perspectives on a variety of variables, and she does what sports commentators are paid to do - teach the viewer something.  She is good at finding real favorites and false favorites, and at uncovering middle-odds horses that have a real chance to run well.  She\'s intelligent and articulate and good. We need more like her.

Sorry for my provincialism, but Phil Georgeff (Chicago tracks) was a great one. He was fired by Madison Square Garden (who had just bought Arlington Park) for \"calling race 1 with as much emotion as the feature race 9.\"